The Adel City Council met in regular session on Tuesday.

According to City Clerk Carrie Erickson, the council approved the first reading to amend an ordinance for special speed zones on U.S. Highway 169 from 50 miles per hour to 45 mph starting at Bradfield Street heading north into the city limits. She noted that the same speed limit will apply going southbound starting north of Timberview Drive until it changes to 55 mph after Bradfield Street. Erickson outlines that the decision was made by the Iowa Department of Transportation, as the highways in Adel are owned by them.

Erickson says that the council approved two additional first readings with one on the Southbridge Urban Renewal Plan and the other to amend the qualifications and duties of the City Administrator. She explains the Southbridge ordinance is to provide general property taxes are levied and collected each year on certain properties located within the Urban Renewal Area and be paid to a special fund for payment of principal and interest on loans, monies advances to and indebtedness to be issued. Erickson confirms the council also waived the second and third readings for adoptions on the all three ordinances.

Erickson adds that items on the agenda that were also approved included appointing Finance Director Brittany Sandquist as Interim City Administrator, a resolution to determine an area of the city to be an economic development area for urban renewal projects, a resolution to authorize execution of a fifth amendment to the agreement for private development with Cramer and Associates Incorporated, a resolution to accept the engagement agreement with South Dallas County Sanitary Landfill Agency and PFM Financial Advisors LLC for an analysis on landfill agency and the enterprise fund revenue requirements, and a memorandum of understanding with Cramer and Associates Incorporated regarding an acceptance of pond and bridge ownership.

Erickson details that a publishing notice of intent to fill a city council vacancy was approved by the council and will appoint an individual at the next meeting in August.